Our last birding day out of September was again to Burton Mere Wetlands. We started off walking to the new elevated viewing platform getting a year-tick Cetti’s Warbler on the way. On the scrape were a group of five Egyptian Geese and a single Whooper Swan- another year tick. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my scope up in enough time to get on the Spotted Crake which was just turning the corner of a spit to go out of sight for the day. I really wanted to ask a chap there if I could see it through his scope but thought with distancing and Covid that might not be the right thing to do. As it happened another chap didn’t have the same qualms as me and he got on the bird on the other chap’s scope. DOH!
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